On Saturday, March 24, 2012 11:59:49 PM UTC-7, Andy Fingerhut wrote: > > I've tried again using links with doc strings as the values of the title > attribute, but when the text in Firefox 11.0 it does not honor the line > breaks in my text, but reflows it. Try it out yourself at [1]: > > [1] > http://homepage.mac.com/jafingerhut/files/cheatsheet-clj-1.3.0-v1.4-tooltips/cheatsheet-title-attribute.html<http://homepage.mac.com/jafingerhut/files/cheatsheet-clj-1.3.0-v1.4-tooltips/cheatsheet-title-attribute.html> > > Is there a way that Firefox will let me specify where line breaks should > go? If I put <pre> or <br> tags in the text of a title attribute, those > just show up literally in the text that the browser displays in the tool > tip. I have line breaks in the title attribute value in my HTML, but > Firefox seems to be ignoring those. > > Safari and Chrome seem to honor the line breaks in the title attribute, > but they make the popup windows so narrow that the lines break in the > middle, in addition to where I put my line breaks, which is better but not > great. Is there a way to tell the browser to make the popup windows wider? > > Andy > This is my first post to the list, so hi everybody!
Andy, Tooltips are being rendered by the browser itself and you cannot control their aspect with HTML or CSS. This bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358452 seems to be related to your issue, and it indicates that the behavior you are looking for should be implemented in FF12. Unfortunately, that doesn't fix it for other browsers, or older versions of FF. Sorry if it sounds critical and isn't very helpful at this stage, but I think the concept of tooltip is being stretched a little here. The 'title' attribute is not meant to contain one or several paragraphs of formatted text, and as such I would expect that you may run into more issues like this in the future. I would personally use DL lists, have each function name in a DT and the corresponding docstring in a DD. I would then have a CSS sheet targeted at screen and handheld media hide the docstrings, and I would have javascript code show them on mouse hover and hide them on mouse out. I think that would ensure best semantical fit of content to HTML tags, best accessibility for visually impaired people, and reliable cross-browser behavior. http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/lists/dl.html http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/lists/dt.html http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/lists/dd.html http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_mediatypes.asp Pierre > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
